== Description ==

Parsec is designed from scratch as an industrial-strength parser library. It is simple, safe, well documented (on the package homepage), has extensive libraries and good error messages, and is also fast. It is defined as a monad transformer that can be stacked on arbitrary monads, and it is also parametric in the input stream type. 

== Hackage URL ==

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/parsec

== History ==

|| HP Version ||  Shipped with ||
|| 2009.2.0   ||  parsec 2.1.0.1 || 
|| 2009.2.0.1 ||  parsec 2.1.0.1 ||

== Latest version ==

3.0.0

== Version shipped with GHC 6.10.2 ==

2.1.0.1

== Discussion ==

Note that the 2009.2.0.x release of the Haskell Platform includes parsec version 2, not version 3.

Distributions may also package version 3 if they wish but if they package the platform they must also package version 2. It is not acceptable to package only version 3 while claiming support for the Haskell Platform.

Any decision to move to version 3 will go through the appropriate community discussion process. The intention is not to hold back progress but to get a consistent package collection for the community. If each distro makes its own choice then we get a mess and defeat one of the purposes of the platform.